'The Lost Book of Barkynge' is a really lovely collection of poems which respond to the story of Barking Abbey - from its Anglo-Saxon origins through its long history as a community of female scholars and writers. And this essay about its creation is beautiful.

good soup

This is so good

he unverified the pope! we’re doing another avignon baby

Bringing your dad both screwdrivers because you don’t know what he’s talking about.

“Your water bills are going towards making foreign corporations rich” Ash Sarkar hits out at private water companies which spill sewage into waterways, adding it makes ‘financial sense’ to renationalise the water industry #bbcqt bit.ly/3LY44xB

Shakespeare's best (and strangest) insults, a thread:

RIP cormac mccarthy. ur writing was cool, but not as cool as your ex-wife

And what's the second one?

I have no Summer clothes. Or Winter clothes. My entire wardrobe is only suitable for the first two weeks of a mild October.

my predictions for the next 5 years:

Every dad’s keyboard tomorrow.

Anti LGBTs: They're just obsessed with our children! All the LGBTs I know:

my boyfriend had a call arranged with some friends to 'check in on mental health stuff'. five minutes later i walked in - they were on facetime watching each other throwing things into the bin from different distances

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